Plants embrace a stepchild: The discovery of peptide growth regulators

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 384-387

  Franssen, Henk J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; PHYTOHORMONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032176849     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(98)80260-4     Document Type: Article

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